Humanitarian Response & Technical Support Team Leader

Humanitarian Response & Technical Support Team Leader

Location
: UK

Contract Type
:
Permanent

Salary
:
Starting Salary: £48,225 (with London weighting)

Lead or coordinate emergency assessments, programme design and response management in crisis-affected or recovering contexts.

Provide technical guidance and quality assurance for large-scale and complex emergency responses in collaboration with the Programme Quality Team.

Strengthen programme quality, accountability, and good humanitarian practice among country teams and partners.

Promote learning and the consistent application of humanitarian standards across programmes.

Ensure skilled personnel are deployed rapidly and effectively to respond to new and ongoing emergencies.

Support the development of shared technical capacity models with other Caritas agencies operating in the same contexts.

Deploy to humanitarian responses in the capacity of Country Representative or Head of Programmes as required, including providing management and operational support during large-scale emergencies.

Lead and support Emergency Response Officers to deliver results in line with CAFOD’s objectives and operational standards.

Encourage strong performance, accountability, and continuous staff development.

Represent CAFOD in humanitarian networks, forums, and coordination mechanisms.

Contribute to humanitarian advocacy and policy initiatives.

Support fundraising and donor engagement efforts related to humanitarian programming.

All CAFOD staff share responsibility to promote and maintain a strong safeguarding culture, including identifying the key actions they should take given their role and responsibilities. Your role is responsible for ensuring that both you and your staff understand and implement minimums on programme quality into your work (related to safety, accessibility, dignity and inclusion) and that all safeguarding standards are upheld and reported on effectively.

The role requires flexibility and the ability to travel internationally at short notice, including to remote and potentially insecure locations. Deployments may last up to 12 weeks, and the position may involve extensive travel during the year.

Significant experience partnering with diverse local and international organisations across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Strong understanding of humanitarian programming across multiple thematic areas.

Builds trusted relationships and empowers diverse stakeholders across geographic and thematic areas, within the development and humanitarian sector and beyond.

Creates effective working relationships in multicultural team environments.

Analyses complex problems with insight, draws on learning, and works collaboratively to develop practical solutions.

Communicates complex or challenging issues clearly, enabling others to understand priorities and take effective action.

Coaches and supports others to build capability, address challenges, and strengthen performance.

Sets clear deliverables and milestones, tracks progress and outcomes, and adapts plans in response to learning and changing contexts.

Leads and contributes to strategic planning, change processes, results-based management, work planning, and reporting.

Balances competing priorities and coordinates a range of activities to support effective programme delivery in complex environments.

Brings strong expertise in emergency preparedness and response, alongside a robust understanding of the international humanitarian system.

• Proven expertise and understanding of emergency preparedness and response and robust knowledge of the international humanitarian system

Proven successes in working with partner organisations in the delivery of humanitarian programmes and capacity strengthening.

Good financial management skills (including budgeting and reporting).

High-level interpersonal and communications with the ability to effectively influence and liaise with key stakeholders on behalf of and in line with CAFOD’s principles.

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